STATE COAL MIXES.
(Fhom Our Own Cohhespokdent.) GREYMOUTH, April 9. The Hon. James Colvin, Minister of Mines, paid his first official visit to the State coal mines to-day at Dunollie. A carriage was attached to a Publio Works engine, .and the journey for the first time was made to the extension in a passenger train. In honour of the occasion detonators were placed on the rails, and the journey was commenced to the accompaniment of explosives. The Minister inspected the extension works, and then returned to Dunollie, where luncheon was partaken of. Subsequently Mr Colvin received a deputation, and at the conclusion of this he returned to Gxeyraoutb. •■• -
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Otago Witness, Issue 3031, 17 April 1912, Page 89
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108STATE COAL MIXES. Otago Witness, Issue 3031, 17 April 1912, Page 89
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